My 'me' photo college (above) is a tribute to Andy Warhol.

My personal connection with Warhol is a strange one--as if there would be any other type of connection with Warhol. I first saw his work in traveling exhibit on a locomotive that passed through my rural town of Kokomo Indiana many years ago, like 1985, if I recall. He died three years later. If I recall, it was a sole Campbell's soap can next to a Jasper Johns America flag.

Later, I was to move to Pittsburgh, Warhol's childhood home town. I worked in the office and watched (literally) the renovation of an old building into the Andy Warhol Museum--the second largest museum dedicated to one person in the world. Once opened, I enjoyed the museum to the fullest.

When I was an art student at Wabash College, I wrote a controversial pro-Warhol paper. I compared Warhol to JMW Turner. Although, my point of view was not a popular one, the professor gave be a decent grade.